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Following the last week review, this time, Shimon Haber will once more share his views on yet another action movie. It is time for Taken 2.

In this movie Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, a retired CIA operative with a set of special skills, who in the first part somehow managed to save his daughter from kidnappers. This time Murad (Rade Serbedzija), a father of one of the kidnappers that was killed, wants revenge for the death of his son and that’s why he kidnaps Bryan Mills along with his wife. This time Shimon Haber presents you Liam Neeson in rescue mission to save his daughter’s life.

Of course it is not the first time and of course that almost every good action movie in today’s movie industry has to get sequel. Some are solid and some are barely worth watching – like this one.

There is no sense in retelling the plot – standard action movie offering nothing special, and certainly not worthy of Luc Besson and Liam Neeson. Car chases, fights, etc. If I only saw here Seagal, Van Damme or Jason Statham, I would not be disappointed, because nothing else I would not have expected. Free to say that almost every B- production action movie can compete with the much-hyped blockbuster.

I just hope that Liam Neeson will not be often seen in such roles, because he would then stand alongside Bruce Willis, which I would rather watch a hundred times in his old movies, than a hundred times in this type of chewed movies.

And Rade Serbedzija has become really tiring as he always acts the same role. He doesn’t even have the change his role name from film to film, simply let him always play the same immortal villain and the matter resolved – just like in a movie – ends Shimon Haber his review which is also posted on his YouTube channel.